Mally Malcz

He’s an MC that goes by the name Mally Malcz (birth name Malcolm). Why Mally Malcz? “My mates call me Mally or Malcz, in what I guess was an attempt to make my name sound a little more down for the road (yeah right it never worked) but thanks for trying still. When I decided I was going to push myself out and attempt to become a recognised, and established artist/lyricist, Mally-Malcz was there simply because that’s how I’m known in my social circle and so no real gimmicks in there I’m afraid, but hopefully people will be more interested in my music than my name.”

He began writing and rapping at the tender age of 8 at his primary school. “Me and a few other members from my class (the naughty ones) would go and work with our music teacher Mr. Turner while the other pupils stayed in the classroom learning a different choice of educational skills. We had use of keyboards, drums, and our inbuilt human beat box systems and would make up tunes or remix other people’s raps or songs; we would then have to perform them in a morning assembly in agreement to the whole arrangement.” His real passion for spitting came at around the age of 13 where his friends MC Chase and Smiler G would show him their tapes they made with DJ’s who had the equipment. “That was like big just hearing them through a set, and I obviously was curious to see if I could do the same if not better. When my mate DJ Greenie got his own beat down pair of sound-lab belt drives that was enough for us to start making tapes and giving them out; eventually we started playing parties and a few bars small clubs - even out in Napa when the garage scene was live-o.”

While he was in Napa he met his producer JOAS who was part of the London Militia group and they kept in contact ever since. He preferred to freestyle and rarely wrote down his lyrics but he says it’s been almost 2 years that he’s been writing more constructively. He draws his inspiration from many different places, “I think that you’ve got to be interested in what you live with. I like to keep an open mind with things I see in the papers and in the news; as they say, ‘there are two sides to every story’ so I’ll try to read into every side of a situation. My ideas come from my own personal views of life and its everyday drama.” He describes that he has a versatile style and has good writing skills. He also enjoys freestyle battles, “I do enjoy freestyle rapping/battles not saying I’m the freestyle king or anything, but when I’m in my zone it can get messy I appreciate freestyle totally. I can handle the pace of an up-tempo track and pretty much any beat I’m feeling, no matter what the speed.”

Mally is full of surprises and has been working in a manual handling job for the last 5 years, “I need your help to me get a big cheque and an early retirement. But on a serious note I guess everybody must work even though nobody wants to. Nothing comes for free; it won’t be long before where taxed for the amount of air we breathe.”

He believes the UK music scene has a lot of talent and competition trying to make it into the big time but there is a lack of money involved in music and the support from each other, “There’s this, ‘You’re North, I’m from South, you’re East, they’re West’ pettiness. We definitely need to lay that talk to rest now for the good of the game, and there’s only so many ways you can shoot someone.” He wants to have his music heard and appreciated by as many people as possible and not ever make a track he wouldn’t be comfortable with.

The debut video from Mally Malcz has just been shot for a track called Love Game, “the tune is like my perspective of how I see love at this present time in my life. The video was smartly filmed I’m sure anyone who sees it will understand just where I’m coming from, that’ll be up soon on my website.” Train Strin was a track released on Download.com and whet in at number 2 in its second week with over 1000 downloads. The next release is a track called Jo Snow featuring Mally’s younger brother Reko, “The tune has had a almost explosive reaction from the selected who have already heard the track. It is another cleverly written track in being both funny catchy and carrying a serious message.” Also check out the video, full track and remix available in April/May 2006. There will also be a hip-hop mix tape mixed by DJ Crafty out by summer, his full album Under The Influence (JOAS Music), even more videos alongside radio, live shows and festivals, “I’m giving it 100%, it’s gonna be a hectic one no doubt about it so look out for me this year.”

www.mallymalcz.co.uk
 
By Rashmi Shastri - Mar 2006